eprintid: 20799
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type: article
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creators_name: Tagliabue, Aldo
title: Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales: A Study of
the Creation of the “Narrative about
Asclepius”
subjects: 800
subjects: 880
divisions: 70900
abstract: Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales is a complex literary text, and its first book—the diary—puzzles scholars,
as it has no parallel in the entire work. This paper offers a justification for this section by arguing
for a deliberate contrast between the diary and Books 2–6 of the Sacred Tales, as a result of which the
latter section is crafted as a narrative about Asclepius. I will first identify a large series of shifts in the
ST: starting with Book 2, change concerns the protagonist, which from Aristides’ abdomen turns to
Asclepius, the narrator, dream interpretation, genre, and arrangement of the events. Secondly, I discuss
the impact of these shifts upon the readers’ response: while the diary invites the readers to relive
the everyday tension between known past and unknown future, the spatial form of Books 2–6 creates
the opposite effect, turning the readers’ attention away from the human flow of time towards Asclepius,
and leading them to perceive features of his divine time.
date: 2016-04
id_scheme: DOI
fp7_project_id: AncNar 312321
ppn_swb: 1657257169
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-207994
language: eng
bibsort: TAGLIABUEAAELIUSARIS201604
full_text_status: public
publication: Classical Antiquity
volume: 35
number: 1
pagerange: 126-146
issn: 0278-6656(p); 1067-8344(e)
citation:   Tagliabue, Aldo  (2016) Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales: A Study of the Creation of the “Narrative about Asclepius”.  Classical Antiquity, 35 (1).  pp. 126-146.  ISSN 0278-6656(p); 1067-8344(e)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20799/1/Tagliabue_2016_CA3501_04.pdf